Matt joined the editors desk in March 2021 after five years as Awardsline's Assistant Editor. In that role, he contributed to the coverage and editing of the magazines throughout the year, focusing on artist interviews revolving around awards season and its big nights including the Oscars and Emmys. Matt also manages the Production Value video series, which spotlights the premier craft talent working in film and TV. He also is part of Deadline's festival studio team at the likes of Sundance, Tribeca and Toronto. Before Deadline he worked at UTA, 8thDay Pictures and Infinity Management International.
Ben Shapiro has officially responded to the recent shutdown of production on his immigration-themed Daily Wire movie Pawn Shop, which is now back in production under a revised filming permit in Livingston, Montana.
In an appearance on his podcast The Ben Shapiro Show — view the clip above…
Jessica Biel has found her next feature project in Playmates, the Searchlight flick inspired by filmmaker Lorraine Nicholson’s experiences growing up at the Playboy Mansion.
Biel is playing a wife to Hugh Hefner and former Playboy Playmate — a fictional character we’re told isn’t modeled off any…
EXCLUSIVE: Keith Kjarval and Renny Harlin, the producer and director of the upcoming The Beast, have set another feature collaboration in Athina, an action thriller to shoot in Europe next spring.
Written by Kjarval, who produces via his Unified Pictures banner, the film sees two estranged…
EXCLUSIVE: UTA has signed stand-up comedian Mark “Lil Mo Mozzarella” Brucato for global representation in all areas.
The signing comes amid the New York-based comic’s newly launched Major Problems tour, which has him taking to club stages across the U.S. and Canada through March 2027, with stops…
Netflix has now officially greenlighted the drama series Feral, setting three for lead roles opposite Baby Reindeer‘s Jessica Gunning: Michelle Dockery (Downton Abbey), Genevieve O’Reilly (Andor) and Quintessa Swindell (Prime Target).
The show, from creator Jude Mack, has also newly cast Dolly…
EXCLUSIVE: Semi-Formal Productions, the production company of Michael Showalter and Jordana Mollick, has announced two promotions: Sam Newman now serves as Co-Head of Film & TV, alongside Emily Crook, with Madolyn Tipton as Creative Executive, Film & TV.
The news comes following a successful…
EXCLUSIVE: Production company K180 Studios has wrapped on its sophomore feature, a Passover home-invasion horror-comedy titled Doom Scroll from director Natalie Bailey. The cast includes Jason Alexander (Seinfeld), Josh Radnor (Hunters), David Mazouz (Gotham), Inbar Lavi (Imposters), Betsy Brandt (Bre…
Matt Vioral, a 20-year veteran of The Gersh Agency talent department, has joined Brillstein Entertainment Partners in a transition to management, Deadline has learned.
Vioral has been with Gersh since the beginning of his career, having elevated there from executive assistant to agent in 2010…
Sebastian Maniscalco isn’t widely viewed as a controversial comic — but he’s found himself in the hot seat this week, scrutinized over a recent SiriusXM changeover in which he’s prominently involved.
Earlier this year, as we first reported, the satellite radio provider replaced Raw Comedy, a…
Nearly a decade after its formation, American High is expanding in new directions.
This weekend, the production company founded by Jeremy Garelick released Rolling Loud, a comedy starring Matt Rife and Owen Wilson that is loosely inspired by Garelick's experience losing his 13-year-old son at…
EXCLUSIVE: Amazon MGM Studios is developing A Murder to Remember, a feature adaptation of Brynn Kelly’s Audible Original from Grey Gardens helmer Michael Sucsy.
A Murder is described as a razor-sharp romantic thriller that follows a Jane Austen-obsessed American art expert and a broke but…
EXCLUSIVE: Jim Taylor, the Academy Award and Golden Globe-winning screenwriter known for his longtime creative partnership with filmmaker Alexander Payne on a series of lauded, darkly comedic character studies, has inked with Paradigm for representation.
Payne and Taylor first collaborated on…